Ex-CNBC director sentenced for spying on nanny with hidden camera at Pleasantville home

Daniel Switzen, a CNBC director who is accused of spying on his teen-age nanny by putting a camera in a bathroom at his Pleasantville home leaves the Pleasantville Village Court Jan. 2, 2018.
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Daniel Switzen, 45, must register as a sex offender.

Daniel Switzen, CNBC director charged with unlawful surveillance for allegedly hiding a camera in a bathroom used by an 18-year-old nanny at his Pleasantville home(Photo11: Pleasantville Police Department)

A former CNBC director must register as a sex offender after being sentenced for spying on his teenage nanny with a bathroom camera at his Pleasantville home.

Westchester County Court Judge Susan Cacace sentenced Daniel Switzen on Tuesday to five years of probation, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. A sex offender registration hearing is scheduled for Nov. 13.

The former television director was arrested in November 2017 after he had been accused of placing a secret camera in a bathroom in his Pleasantville home. Officials said the camera was hidden in a tissue box and was found by his family's nanny.

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Jeffrey Chartier, right, leaves the Pleasantville Village Court with his client Daniel Switzen on Jan. 2, 2018. Switzen is a CNBC director who is accused of spying on his teenage nanny by putting a camera in a bathroom.(Photo11: Carucha L. Meuse/The Journal News)

Switzen admitted that he placed the camera there to capture the nanny and her friends on video, officials said. The case was prosecuted by Joseph Servino.